, 1887-03-16
THE INQUEST.
What Was Developed by the Coroner's
JIry.

JIry.
Pursuant to adjournment, the c%oroner's
jury in the case Of Charlie Tong assem-
bled at the city hall yesterday forenoon at
10 o'clock for the purpose of hearing the
testimony in the case. Without making
any reference in detail to the testimony of
the witnesses, several having been exam
ined, it may be stated that in no material
particular whatever did the facts as elected
from the witnesses differ from the account
of the Tong tragedy as published in The
LEADER of yesterday morning. AS stated
yesterday morning, there has been some
confusion about the name. The name of
Charlie Tong Tor Thong), as given by
The LEADER yesterday morning as being
the name of the murdered Chinaman, was
correct. with this in addition, however:
Before the deceased adopted the English
name of Charlie his full Chinese name
was Yu Tong. All of his letters and
papers, however, which were examined
yesterday. have the name of Charlie Tong
or Charlie zee Tong, and in one or two
instances his original name of zee Tong
appeared. 1t should be explained here
that there is a custom among Celestials
when they open up for business in a new
place of carrying it on for a time under
the name of the prior proprietor, and in
this case when Tong took possession Ct
the place where the murder was connie
ted, the old sign left by the former pro-
prietor, which bore the name of Jim Sing,
was still hanging on the outside, the result
being that after Tong established his
headquarters there he was known by the
name of Jim Sing as well as Charlie Tong.
The name Jim Sing also, among many
Cinnamon, signifies boss" and as Tong
was boss of the establishment after he
went in there there appeared to be an
additional propriety in calling him Jim
Sing.
AS stated in THE LEADER yesterday
morning Tong came back to Cheyenne
after his first disappearance (Dec. 20), for
the two Cinnamon who came five weeks
ago from Denver and thought Tong had
been killed and put under the floor stated
to Mr.. and Mrs. Ferris that Tong had
come to Denver and opened a cigar store
Tone Of longs papers shown yesterday
was a receipt to Charlie Tong for the price
paid for 5000 cigars from a Denver firm
and the two asserted at that time that
they had not seen him for thirty-three
days.
There was some uncertainty as to the
m of the two Cinnamon who we're
with Tong in the back room where the
purder took place, but 700 Foo seems to
have been one of them. There we're
many thugs stated in the testimony, but
nothing material beyond the facts given
in The LEADER yesterday. While at
one time there were as many as two and
three Celesrials connected with the house
where the murder took place, while Tong
was its proprietor, yet 700 Foo seems to
have been the best known. Where he is
now or where he and the others went to
nobody seems to know. 1t is probable
from the testimony heard yesterday that
Tong had some money, but it does not
seem clear that this was the motive for
which the murder was committed. 1t
seems rather to have been the result of a
quarrel, and it was testified to in the case
yesterday that a row was heard to take
place in the brick house and that loud
cries were heard to come from there in
the middle Of the night of January Is
or l6.
The jury in the verdict say the deceased
met with a violent death, probably at the
hands of 700 Foo.